[U-Boot] [PATCH] punt unused clean/distclean targets

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday, September 19, 2011 01:11:17 Graeme Russ wrote:
> Hi Mike
> 
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 18, 2011 09:08:35 Graeme Russ wrote:
> >> On 18/09/11 18:22, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> > On Sunday, September 18, 2011 03:26:38 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> >> >> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> >>> The top level Makefile does not do any recursion into subdirs when
> >> >>> cleaning, so these clean/distclean targets in random arch/board dirs
> >> >>> never get used.  Punt them all.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >> Can we not have make distclean/mrproper traverse ALL arch/SoC/board
> >> directories and call their distclean/mrproper? Or have
> >> distclean/mrproper read the .mk file for all arch/SoC/board
> >> directories?
> > 
> > if it wasn't clear in my last e-mail, i want to move in the direction of
> > .mk files that the top level would include them and thus all the
> > specific cruft would be kept there
> > 
> > after all, the list of things to clean should be obvious once we have
> > more kbuild style system: if it's listed as a file to build, then it
> > should get cleaned.
> 
> 'make distclean' and 'make mrproper' should delete ALL intermediate build
> files and basically return the local git repository to the same state that
> it would be in if you did a fresh git-clone regardless of what config
> options git set.

yes.  i dont believe i said anything differently.

remember that just because you have COBJS-$(FOO) doesnt mean you need FOO to 
be defined to have access to that item.  you can just as easily do `rm -f 
$(COBJS-) $(COBJS-y)`.
-mike
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